Where does “宿借り” come from?

宿借り (Japanese) comes from Japanese 宿, from Middle Chinese 宿.

宿借り (Japanese): a hermit crab

Definitions

  1. a hermit crab

Ancestry of “宿借り”, step by step

宿借り traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 宿

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese宿lodging, inn; house, home
2Middle Chinese宿—

via Japanese 借り

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese借りborrowing, a debt, a loan; in the Edo period, a...
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